Jimmy Cannon Quotes & Sayings

Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages. — Jimmy Cannon

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood. — Jimmy Cannon

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler. — Jimmy Cannon

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. — Jimmy Cannon

He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache ... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party ... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom. — Jimmy Cannon

Hockey would be a great game ... if played in the mud. — Jimmy Cannon

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas. — Jimmy Cannon

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set. — Jimmy Cannon

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn. — Jimmy Cannon

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. — Jimmy Cannon

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race. — Jimmy Cannon

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht. — Jimmy Cannon

He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted. — Jimmy Cannon

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella. — Jimmy Cannon

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball. — Jimmy Cannon

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. — Jimmy Cannon

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong — Jimmy Cannon

England produces the best fat actors. — Jimmy Cannon

I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me. — Jimmy Cannon